giant-blackbox

This is a simple test suite which runs some black-box tests on a given website. It's designed to provide sanity checks as part of a post-deployment workflow.

Further Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-box_testing

Introduction

This software was designed with the following considerations in mind:

• It should be run via a Github action.
• It should take a single required argument, a hostname, and not require any further information about a given domain.
• The tests should behave well, so as to not overwhelm the application server.

TODO

• This should report to a Slack webhook.
• It might be worth investigating changing from unittest-derived tests to something lighter with pytest.

Dependencies

• pytest, for use as a nicer test runner than UnitTest.
• BeautifulSoup4

Setup

As part of a Github workflow.yml file:

- name: Run live site checks
  uses: giantmade/giant-blackbox
  with:
    hostname: "https://www.example.com"
    verify_ssl: "True"

Credits

The first version of this code was written in Leon Smith's gist. Everything since then has been rearranging code around the edges. Thank you Leon.